tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29817026669460834732024-03-21T11:17:21.251-04:00Creating Virginia AnneAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466461771970849677noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2981702666946083473.post-87590454876983180182016-12-27T10:44:00.000-05:002017-01-03T13:45:32.049-05:00DIY Rustic Key Racks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Every year for Christmas, instead of spending a ton of money on individual gifts for everyone, we do small gifts or lotto tickets. I love to craft, so of course every year I try my best to make something new for everyone. </div>
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This year, I made all of the men a DIY Rustic Key Rack. </div>
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I have had a box of old keys sitting in my craft closet for quite some time now, so I figured I needed to use them for something fun. I spent about 3 hours using two pairs of pliers to bend one key at a time. Some of them broke, but luckily I had more than enough spares. </div>
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I purchased a bundle of the wood from Hobby Lobby for around $4 a bundle. I bought two bundles, and I love them because each piece is completely different, and I love the rustic look of the unfinished wood. </div>
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I also purchased some decorative nail heads from Hobby Lobby. (They were in the wood isle.) </div>
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I used a hammer to tightly seal each key to the wood. </div>
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This project is so easy, cheap and fun to make!</div>
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Everyone loved them! (I even made one for out house!)</div>
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Here are the supplies you need:</div>
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- keys</div>
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-decorative nails</div>
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- hangers for the back</div>
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NOTE: I did not include hangers for the backs for each of these gifts, simply because I know some people in my family would want to hang it differently than others, so I figured I would leave the hanging decisions up to each individual. </div>
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There are so many possibilities with a DIY project like this one. This would even be a wonderful house warming gift as well!</div>
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If you recreate this DIY, I would love to see it, leave it in the comments below, or tag them using #CreatingVirginiaAnne </div>
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Happy crafting everyone! <3</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466461771970849677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2981702666946083473.post-19061715790080512642016-10-01T17:56:00.002-04:002016-10-01T17:57:31.014-04:00DIY Scarecrow bottle - Fall Decor - Upcycle + Recycle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love to bring my grandmother homemade gifts whenever we go to visit her. I also love to be at her house and to be able to look around and see all of these DIY memories I have made and get to share with her. <3 </div>
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This DIY is so simple. I took an empty wine bottle, painted it a light brown/tan color. While I was waiting for the paint to dry, I cut a piece of foam board to look like a donut that would fit around the top of the bottle, to make the hat. I hot glued some fake straw that I purchased at the local dollar store, around the neck of the bottle as the scarecrows hair. Following that step, I took twine and used my hot glue gun to glue it to the foam donut. When I was finished doing that, I slid the foam donut over the top of the bottle and pushed it down as far as I possibly could. I then took more twine and glued it to the top of the bottle to finish off the look of the hat. I had a roll of rhinestone ribbon that I used as the top of the hat. However, you could easily finish it off with twine, or any other kind of ribbon. I then took some more fake straw and glued it to the base of the bottle, with the loose ends pointing up, before I glued some twine around the bottom of the bottle, and used some more of the rhinestone ribbon around the base; symbolizing his shirt. I added a fun twine bow, just to be cute. My last step was the scarecrows face. I used Halloween googly eyes from the Dollar Tree, and painted on the rest of his face, using pink, orange and black paint. The fun part about his face is that you can be so creative and make any kind of face you want to. I did a simple happy face because after all this is a gift for my 90 year old grandmother. </div>
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This was such a fun and easy upcycle and recycle project to do. Please share a picture in the comments below if you recreate this project! I would love to see them! </div>
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Until next time... xoxoxo</div>
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With our baby shower coming soon, I wanted to throw together some fun buttons for the parents to be and grandparents to be to wear. I did not want to spend a lot of money on them though, because they are only going to be worn during the shower. So of course, I hopped into my car and went to the Dollar Tree and Walmart!</div>
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tan colored label stickers (<span style="color: #a64d79;"><i>Dollar Tree</i></span>)</div>
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gold glitter alphabet stickers (<span style="color: #a64d79;"><i>Walmart</i></span>)</div>
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ribbon (<span style="color: #741b47;"><i>7 different colors and styles</i></span>) (<span style="color: #a64d79;"><i>Walmart</i></span>)</div>
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pin backings (<span style="color: #a64d79;"><i>Walmart</i></span>)</div>
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I also used my hot glue gun and glue sticks that I already had around the house. I also used some leftover gold glitter and pink camo scrapbook paper that I purchased from Hobby Lobby to use for the <a href="http://creatingvirginiaanne.blogspot.com/2015/05/spa.html">Pedicure Spa Jar </a>that I made for baby shower game prizes!</div>
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I took white paper and used the gold alphabet stickers to write out:</div>
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<br />Mommy</div>
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Daddy</div>
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Grandma (<span style="color: #a64d79;"><i>2 times</i></span>)</div>
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Great Grandma (<span style="color: #a64d79;"><i>3 times</i></span>)</div>
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I then cut those out and glued them onto the tan colored label stickers from the dollar store.</div>
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I peeled off those stickers and stuck them to the pink camo scrapbook paper. I took scissors and cut those out, trying to match the shape of the sticker the best that I could, with leaving a fun pink camo border around the sticker.</div>
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I did the same exact thing all over again, but I glued the cut outs to the gold glitter scrapbook paper this time. I took my scissors and cut them out, again, trying to match the original shape as best as I could.</div>
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I then took my ribbons and cut them into various different sizes (<i><span style="color: #a64d79;">2 pieces the same size of each ribbon style and color</span></i>) I took my hot glue gun and started gluing the ribbons together at the top.</div>
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When the ribbons were all glued together, I used a dot of hot glue to attache the name tags I made to each set of ribbons. I also glued on a pin backing just above the glued on ribbons.</div>
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I let the glue dry for a few minutes, and then I flipped over the button to look at the pretty front of it, and I took my scissors to trim and shape each ribbon to make them look good together.</div>
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Here is the final product:</div>
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With the baby shower coming up soon, I am just finishing up some last final touches to make it a fun and girly shower. </div>
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fake flowers <span style="color: #a64d79;"><i>(I got 1 bunch [5 flowers] from the Dollar Tree)</i></span></div>
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I started off by pulling off the flowers from their stems. I also pulled off the leaves, I was planning on using them but ended up just throwing them away. </div>
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I threw away the steps and leaves. I then flipped the flowers over and used my scissors to cut of what was left of the stem.</div>
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I took the pens and floral tape and wrapped two layers around the pen. The floral tape is sticky, but not very sticky so I did seal the ends with a small dot of hot glue.<br />
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I added a pink bow <i><span style="color: #a64d79;">(I just tied a piece of pink ribbon around the base of the flower and cut off the extra ribbon scrap to make the bow the size I wanted.)</span></i></div>
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Here are the final products. I think they are adorable!</div>
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They were cheap and did not take long to make at all.</div>
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These would be perfect for a shower - teacher gift - party - or just a cute addition to your desk at work. They look gorgeous in a small vase on the table, and I am excited to display them and use them at the baby shower.</div>
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Our shower is on a Saturday, so Sunday I am dedicating most of my day to making the Thank yous and writing them out, so I could mail them out on Monday. (<span style="color: #741b47;"><b>EDIT: </b></span><i>These thank-yous took me about 5 hours to make and write out, but they were so worth it and I loved how they turned out.</i>)</div>
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I started off by using our computer and printer to print out THANK YOU on the upper right hand corner of each invitation. I used an invitation layout in Microsoft Word, and just made sure that my paper size matched the sizes on the computer printer setup page. I also used colored font to match what color fabric and buttons I was planning to use on certain thank-yous.</div>
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I ended up printing 10 yellows, 20 salmons, 20 pinks, 20 blues and 30 purples. (totaling 100 Thank-yous)</div>
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I then took my fabric scissors and cut out a temp-let shape of a baby buggy. You can even Google baby buggy to print out the ideal shape if you wanted to!</div>
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I cut out 10 buggy's of each fabric pattern that I purchased. </div>
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Once your buggy's are all cut out, now it is time to make the thank yous!</div>
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I made a total of 100 thank yous in this style, I will then my thin black sharpie to write out my messages to all of our loving and wonderful family and friends.</div>
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This project would work for Thank-yous or even invitations! </div>
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For part of the baby shower gifts we will be giving each person a little baggy with a few items in it. One of those items will be a small tea light candle, with a tag attached that says the short poem that I started this post with.</div>
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I wrapped each tea light (whew I wrapped 100!) and I really think it made them a little more fun for the favor bags. </div>
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This quick, easy and cheap DIY was just that. It was very quick, it took me less than 1 minute per tea light. It was easy, all I had to do was measure, cut and wrap. It was also cheap, the candles were from Walmart but you can buy them from the Dollar Tree as well. The washi tape was off brand and from the Dollar Tree, and that is all you need my friends!</div>
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Since we have a little girl due in July, the baby shower is of course going to be pink and girly - mixed in with a little camo too!</div>
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My Momma-Bear and I decided to make the center pieces ourselves...</div>
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White elastic bands <span style="color: #a64d79;"><i>(Hobby Lobby)</i></span></div>
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12 yards of neon pink tulle <span style="color: #a64d79;"><i>(Hobby Lobby)</i></span></div>
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12 yards of Paris pink tulle <span style="color: #a64d79;"><i>(Hobby Lobby)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><b>Step 6:</b></span> fluff the tulle and TAH-DAH a pretty little tutu to fit around the brown flower buckets!</div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><b>Step 7: </b></span>As you can see in the top pictures, we slid the tutu around the flower pot, cut a 33 inch piece of our camo ribbon and tied a bow around it.</div>
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The shower is just around the corner, and we finally have almost all of the prizes, tagged, organized and wrapped. I took pictures of them before wrapping them, so I could share some game prize ideas. I will be doing a separate post on the games we are doing.</div>
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First off, here are the favors that we are going to be giving to each guest.</div>
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A pretty fuchsia mesh bag <span style="color: #a64d79;"><i>(Micheal's)</i></span> with a Sweet Pea hand sanitizer <i><span style="color: #a64d79;">(Bath & Body Works) </span></i>and a tea light <span style="color: #a64d79;"><i>(I made them.. here is the post on how to make them yourself! <a href="http://creatingvirginiaanne.blogspot.com/2015/04/tea-lights-baby-shower-favor.html">HERE.</a>)</i> </span> </div>
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The tags are double sided, so I photographed both messages.</div>
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Some of the other prizes that are going to be given away are...</div>
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My mom worked hard making these prizes.</div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><b>TOP LEFT PICTURE: </b></span>Not made by my mom but collected, baking sets. It consists of a kitchen towel, two oven mitts and a hot pad. </div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><b>TOP RIGHT PICTURE:</b></span> My mom made grocery bag socks. You can hang them in your kitchen cabinet, a closet or the pantry, and they have an opening on top and bottom, you can use it to store the plastic bags you get from shopping. So handy & creative! </div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><b>BOTTOM LEFT PICTURE:</b></span> Hot Pads for bowls that my mom made. Have you ever placed a bowl of something in the microwave, only to not be able to touch it right away when it is done heating up?! This solves your problem! Place these around your bowl before microwaving them and the fabric will not get too hot to touch! Love this idea! <span style="color: #a64d79;"><i>(I told her I wanted a few of them for myself! ha!)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><b>BOTTOM RIGHT PICTURE:</b></span> Mini oven mitts that my mom made. They are small and padded, so you won't get burned taking something out of the oven, and they are small and compact so they don't take up a lot of room in the kitchen cabinet or drawer! </div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><b>TOP LEFT PICTURE: </b></span>My mom made some adorable jewelry pouches for traveling, and I placed a homemade bracelet hanging out of each one!</div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><b>TOP MIDDLE PICTURE:</b></span> Cute notepads <span style="color: #a64d79;"><i>(guests will win them in sets of 2)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><b>BOTTOM LEFT PICTURE:</b></span> My mom put together travel packs. A caboodle package filled with: razors, mini first aide kit. Q-tips, mini sewing kit, sun block, hand lotion, and tooth paste. So convenient!</div>
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We also got scarves for one of the games, and there will be a guest at each table winning a centerpiece! The centerpieces were made by my mom and I and you can see how we did them and what they look like <a href="http://creatingvirginiaanne.blogspot.com/2015/04/tea-lights-baby-shower-favor.html">HERE!</a> </div>
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If you make a version of these yourself, please share a picture in the comments below, or tag them on Instagram using <span style="color: #a64d79;"><b>#CreatingVirginiaAnne</b></span></div>
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These cute little wooden bunnies were so easy and fun to make!</div>
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I made these with items that I had around the house... even to buy the supplies to make them, it wouldn't cost much to make a few... <span style="color: #741b47;"><b>ENJOY!</b></span></div>
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2x4 wood pieces (<i>cut into random sizes - but 12 inches or less</i>)</div>
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Paint pens (<i>black</i>) (<i>I used colors to sign the backs</i>)</div>
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Pink fabric scraps</div>
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Wire (<i>I used jewelry wire</i>)</div>
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Hearts (<i>dollar tree</i>)</div>
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I started off by using white spray paint and putting a few coats on my cut 2x4 pieces of wood. This is just my first batch, so I only did 6 for now.</div>
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While the paint was drying I started to cut 3 inch pieces of gold jewelry wire, (<i>floral wire would work too</i>) and crimping them with my fingers.</div>
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I then took an heart sticker, turned it upside down and used hot glue to glue on 6 whiskers to each nose.</div>
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I cut 2 pink ear shapes, and glued them onto the white fabric, then cut around them to make the ears.</div>
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I folded the burlap like an accordion, and tied the piece of twine around the middle to make it look like a bow.I used the extra twine attached to tie it around the bottom of the piece of wood.</div>
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I glued on the ears, and I used a small dot of hot glue to hold the bow-tie in place. </div>
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I attended my 2nd quilting workshop today. I had a blast and I made a baby crib quilt for our Little Sweetpea ♥ I got all of my fabric from Joann Fabrics and I matched the theme of her nursery.</div>
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The quilt pattern that I did today is called<b><span style="color: #741b47;"> Turning Twenty Again.</span></b></div>
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My mom rocked her own fabric by cutting it herself this time. She said it was a little time consuming because she is still learning, but she really enjoyed it! Here are the fabric styles and colors she choose for her lap quilt.</div>
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I also wanted to share my Aunts pattern, which is called Around The World.</div>
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This was her first time quilting and her first time sewing in about 30 years. Her quilt turned out beautiful! As did everyone's quilts! This quilt is for her mother, who picked out all of the Irish fabric from Joann's!</div>
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I just wanted to share these pictures with you because quilting really is a fun thing to do, and the possibilities are endless. </div>
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If you have a sewing machine, like to sew and want to make a quilt then I highly encourage you to look up a local quilting class or workshop around you and go for it! You will not regret it! I am already looking forward to my next workshop! </div>
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Do you know someone who is about to turn 21?!</div>
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Then this is the easiest, cheapest, most perfect DIY gift bag for you to make!</div>
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My cousin is turned 21 today! </div>
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We are all going to dinner tonight, and out afterwards. </div>
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I put together this little gift bag from a group of us, to help her through the following day.</div>
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The bag reads:</div>
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"<span style="color: magenta;">O</span><span style="color: lime;">H</span> <span style="color: purple;">S</span><span style="color: magenta;">H</span><span style="color: lime;">I</span><span style="color: purple;">T</span> <span style="color: magenta;">K</span><span style="color: lime;">I</span><span style="color: purple;">T</span>"</div>
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The day after your 21st birthday you may be a little hungover.....</div>
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So we put together this kit to help you get sober.</div>
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Some Aleve, Gatorade, and even a snack.</div>
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Don't worry girl we got your back!" </div>
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I simply just typed up the message in word document, I played around with fonts & printed it! I then colored in some of the letters. Cut the paper down to size, and glued it to the bag before I put the items inside! </div>
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1 bottle of Aleve tablets</div>
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1 box of granola bars</div>
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1 bag of popcorn (one of her favorite snacks)</div>
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Earrings are so simple and fun to make!</div>
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The possibilities really are endless when it comes to jewelry!</div>
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There are so many different styles out there that every creation is beautiful in their own unique way!</div>
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Here are three recent pairs of earrings that I made.</div>
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Using acrylic pearls and beads. The orange pair is made of all wooden beads, which I find them to be lighter and more rustic looking than the other two pairs. I like rustic!</div>
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Every year for Christmas my brothers and our significant others have a lotto party night, where we buy scratch off tickets instead of buy each other presents. This year we decided to make it an UGLY SWEATER PARTY as well! EEkkk! As soon as we decided that I was overly excited to make a fun set of sweaters for the hubby and I to wear!</div>
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I started off by buying different colors of felt.</div>
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You need the most of the tan for the body of the deer,</div>
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I laid out the felt and drew on my reindeer.</div>
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I then cut it out and pieced him together.</div>
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I traced the hubby's hands on the tan, then my hands on the cream felt, so that the cream antlers were smaller than the tan antlers.</div>
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I also cut out a red oval for the reindeer nose!</div>
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I then laid out our two white sweaters that I bought for $5 each at WalMart.</div>
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I measured the height difference between my hubby and I, so that when we stood next to one another our reindeer matched up. </div>
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I plugged in my hot glue gun and let it heat up!</div>
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Then I got to gluing!</div>
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For the eyes, I cut out white felt and black rectangles to make the pupils.</div>
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I then used some black felt for the reindeer feet, and I took white tulle and bunched it up along the bottom of the sweaters, under the reindeer feet, to make it look like snow. I used hot glue for all of it and it help on very well!</div>
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The next step is applying the present bows!</div>
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I used 8 bows total.</div>
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I glued two bows falling from the reindeer's rear end.</div>
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and then I piled on the remaining 6 bows just above the tulle (<i>which is acting as the snow</i>)</div>
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The picture below shows that!</div>
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Our sweaters were a HUGE hit at the party! and people were even asking us if they could borow them! Which of course they can!</div>
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I paired my sweater with my long Santa hat, my red leggings, my stripped Christmas stockings that go above the knee, and my reindeer slippers that I absolutely adore! </div>
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If you make your own version of this Ugly Christmas Sweater be sure to share it in the comments below, or tag #CVA on Instagram! I would love to see your creations! Even if you don't make this version, if this post even inspired you to create your own Ugly Sweater please share it too! </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466461771970849677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2981702666946083473.post-51958998498910162632014-12-23T15:43:00.000-05:002015-04-01T13:54:09.569-04:00Chocolate Reindeer - DIY <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Here is a fun and easy DIY for Christmas time! It is great for kids, or even adults! It is even great for a fun stocking stuffer!!</div>
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1. I started off by cutting the brown construction paper down to size, in order for it to wrap around the candy bar without having extra paper to hang over the sides. I just measured one, then cut all the pieces of brown construction paper to match. </div>
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2. I then wrapped the brown construction paper around the candy bar and only used a small dot of hot glue on the corners of the paper, so that it didn't melt the chocolate bar at all.</div>
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5. I cut out off-white circles and smaller red circles and glued them together. (<i>This is the reindeer's hair.</i>)</div>
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6. I then placed them on the candy bar with a dot of hot glue as well. (<i>This is the nose!</i>) I added googly eyes between the hair and the nose, and TAH-DAH!!</div>
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I passed these cuties out to all of the kiddos at our Christmas parties this year. They were a huge hit! Even some adults asked me for one to take home!</div>
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These would even be great for your child's classroom or sports team around the holidays! As long as the chocolate is approved! But in all honesty, you could make smaller versions around granola bars and other rectangular snacks! </div>
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I helped my mom make these adorable Christmas themed place mats with my nephew today! They were quick, easy and fun for all of us!</div>
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Place mats (<i>a lighter color works best</i>)</div>
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Red Sharpie (<i>optional</i>)</div>
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A hand and a foot! </div>
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First, you take the place mat, and lay them out. Paint the foot being used green, and place it towards the bottom left corner. Then take the hand being used, paint it brown and place it just above and to the right of the foot print. Then repeat that step two more times. (<i>Or even more if you'd like!</i>)</div>
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Next, take the red paint and just use a small amount. Dip in a thumb and a finger tip to make the Santa in the sleigh! Let the paint dry.</div>
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After the paint is dry, we then used a black sharpie to draw in the detailing of the sleigh and reindeer. Ropes, antlers, the bottom of the sleigh, and of course Santa's face! </div>
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My mom used a red sharpie to write Merry Christmas, however you can also use some red paint if you want to! When it was all done she wrote his name and the year on it, so that they will remember forever.</div>
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My momma made these as a surprise gift for my nephews parents. This is a fun project to do with kids of all ages! It is also a great way to watch the kids hands and feet grow over the years!</div>
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If you make a Christmas place mat of your own please remember to share them in the comments below or even tag #CVA on Instagram! I would love to see your creations! </div>
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Here is a fun snack to make for Sunday night!</div>
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White chocolate baking chips</div>
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Waffle Style pretzels</div>
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Sugar bones (<i>I found my in the Halloween cake items</i>)</div>
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Step 1: Separate a bag of white chocolate baking chips into two bowls (<i>make sure the bowls are microwave safe!</i>)</div>
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Follow the directions on the chocolate chips package, for timing on how to melt the chocolate without burning it. </div>
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Step 2: while the chocolate is melting away in the microwave, I laid out my pretzels on a cookie sheet covered with wax paper (<i>I prefer it for an easier clean up!</i>) </div>
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Step 3: When the chocolate is melted, I added the food coloring. Green to one bowl and red to the other bowl. </div>
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Step 4: I mixed the food coloring in very well, and kept adding more until the chocolate was my desired shades of green and red. When the chocolate was my desired colors, I used my fork to drop a blob onto each pretzel. I started with the green chocolate. </div>
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Step 6: before the green chocolate started to harden, I placed an un-melted white chocolate chip upside-down in random places of the green chocolate. I then took red food coloring on a toothpick and dribbled red over the entire pretzel and chocolate to make it look like blood. I added a small dab of black food coloring to the center of the un-melted white chocolate chip to make it look like an eyeball. </div>
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Step 7: Now onto the red melted chocolate! I did the same process as step 6 for the red as well, but I also used some candy sugar bones for some of them! I also didn't use any extra red food coloring to add blood to these ones, but you totally could if you wanted to! I did however, use a fork to rough up the chocolate a little more on these ones as the chocolate was starting to harden. I was going for more of a human look for these ones, compared to the green ones. </div>
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p.s. these would also be a fun Halloween treat as well!! Heck, even for a scary movie night with friends or the family!</div>
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I took some scraps to make my sister-in-law a flower canvas out of her late grandmothers clothes, as a memory piece, that you can see <a href="http://creatingvirginiaanne.blogspot.com/2014/04/flowers-with-memory.html">here</a>.</div>
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I then, took my hot glue gun and put a dot of glue to start of the first strip of fabric and wrapped the fabric piece around the bracelet. I also used a dot of hot glue to hold the end of the strip to the bracelet as well.</div>
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She absolutely loved them, and even though they are not bracelets made to wear with an outfit everyday, they are nice to have because it is a piece of her grandmother that she can keep forever. <span style="color: #741b47;">♥</span></div>
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My husband is a hunter, and he hunts up on my cousins property with her husband and my brother. I am out here this weekend to hunt with them for my first time! (<i>in a tree stand</i>) I found this fun quote on pinterest and thought I HAD to make a sign for her. I hopped right into my car and headed to Hobby Lobby. </div>
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Yes! That is really all you need! Oh and I used a sharpie to sign the back of it! <span style="color: #741b47;">☺</span> </div>
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I laid out how I wanted it to look, then just simple stuck the stickers on! When I had it put together how I wanted it to look, I took a sponge brush I had laying around the house and some clear mat modge podge, and I did one quick coat over the entire thing, to help the stickers stay on better!</div>
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My cousin thought it was hilarious and absolutley loved it! It is now on display in their living room! </div>
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